Have you noticed any young men acting rather awkward roaming around Paradise, Chico or Butte College lately? If so, you may have witnessed the Prank Brothers in action.

The new comedy team includes Greg Muniz, Tim Muniz and Jake Reinolds, who said they just want to make people laugh.

"These days people are going through a lot of stuff and so we want to do anything to put a smile on someone's face (so) they get to have a better day," Tim said.

The three men have decided to try and make a living by filming their pranks and uploading the videos to YouTube. They explained that if they can get enough views on their videos, and enough subscribers, then YouTube will pay them to put ads before their videos.

"A lot of the pranksters that we watch, they have gone from nothing," Reinolds said. "They could have one video that has gone viral and subscribers will be in the millions in no time."

The journey to where the men are now began in sixth grade when they all met, and used to make commercials for fun in their backyards.

"Time went by, and two years ago we were watching some YouTube videos of pranksters ... and we were like, 'That sounds like so much fun, they are awesome,'" Greg said. "Starting a month ago we started taking this seriously, bought all of the equipment like wireless mics and everything, and we went from there."

The first video was uploaded last Friday, and they said the video had about 170 views in less than two days. The team added that their Facebook page also had over 100 likes in the same amount of time.

"The first video is just a mash up of awkward things. I went over by the Savemart exit and did push ups there," Reinolds said. "Somebody that works there came out and said, 'Can you move? That is kind of weird.'"

At the end of the video, there was a preview of their next video where Greg went up to random girls with a ring and asked them to marry him. They added that they received great reactions from the individuals in that video.

After their pranks, they let the individuals know that they were being pranked, Reinolds said.

"Most of the time they start busting up laughing and they don't believe it, so when you show them the camera they say, 'Wow, you are for real,'" Tim said.

The men added that there are some limits to their shenanigans however, noting that they won't do anything that could result in death, getting arrested or anything that is considered inappropriate, so their families can watch.

Eventually, they noted that they won't be able to pull pranks on people in Paradise any longer because they will get recognized. To counter balance that, they said they just have to travel to film.

"Even if we go on vacation, anywhere we are, we are going to do pranks," Tim said. Reinolds added that this summer the trio plans on going to Roseville and Sacramento to film some footage as well.

Greg commented that there may be guest stars in some of the videos as well, having already heard from several friends who want to participate in a video or two.

Reinolds said he thinks YouTube prank videos are so popular on the Internet because "people love to see people doing stuff that they wouldn't do, they love to see the awkward funny thing because they know they wouldn't do it."